by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Aug 21– Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX on August 11 for tampering with witnesses in the upcoming trial against him was ordered remained to jail.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Lewis A. Kaplan heard from prosecutors that in Putnam County Correctional Facility, SBF could be given access to discovery material over the Internet.
Kaplan replied that he assumed the defendant would be in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, like fellow crypto-fraud defendant Miles Guo and others.
On August 12 Inner City Press, which published the first book about SBF's remand ("Crypto Creeps," here, sample on Substack here) found the Bureau of Prisons notice, listing SBF in the MDC.
On August 14, the DOJ prosecutors docketed their superseding indictment against SBF, with Count 8, Campaign Finance, dropped ostensibly at the request of the Bahamas. Inner City Press immediately published the superseding indictment on its DocumentCloud here.
SBF World was the second largest donor to Democrats in the 2022 cycle... More analysis, including of Nishad Singh guilty plea to the count, on Substack here. Watch this site.
On August 18 SBF's lawyers wrote in to ask - or demand - that he be produced 5 days a week to the 500 Pearl Street SDNY courthouse into the fifth floor proffer room - letter on Patreon here.
On August 21, Judge Kaplan approved it for 8:30 am to 3 pm on August 22, but otherwise denied: "ORDER as to Samuel Bankman-Fried: Insofar as the defendant has sought relief for August 22, see Dkt 210, the request is granted to the extent that the Marshall shall make the defendant available to meet with his counsel, in the Marshal's cell block attorney room, from approximately 8:30 a.m. until approximately 3 p.m. Counsel may bring one Internet-enabled laptop and one WiFi device into the Courthouse for the purpose of the meeting. The balance of the request for August 22 is denied. (Signed by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on 8/21/2023)." Watch this site. More on this on Substack here
More sample on Substack here. Extended on Patreon here.
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